Luiz Razia finished 10th
overall in practice at the Circuit de Catalunya for Arden International. Razia
ended the session with a time of 1.31.717. Joseph Kral in the Barwa Addax Team
set the quickest time of the session, a 1.31.109, going into Qualifying, this
afternoon.
The European leg of the season is
kicked off this weekend in Barcelona at the Circuit de Catalunya, a track the
drivers know very well. Razia goes into this weekend 2nd in the
championship with 83 points, 24 points behind Valsecchi. Razia was leading the
championship after the first round in Sepang but couldn’t continue with this
form and is now closely behind the leader.
Arden International are also
having a strong start to the season. The team is 3rd in the
standings overall with 84 points, 9 points behind 2nd place Lotus GP
and 51 points behind the leaders DAMS.
The teams are incredibly close,
already this season and with 18 more races to go in 9 different countries, it’s
definitely going to be a scorcher when the final rounds get underway in
Singapore towards the end of the year.
Luiz Razia had a good start to the
session and his first flying lap put him up in 2nd position, but was
slowly dropping down the standings after more and more times were put in by the
field.
Razia managed to improve his
time, but it wasn’t enough to move him up the grid and with 20 minutes to go he
was seven tenths off the leader Kral.
Razia completed six laps and his
quickest time was 1.31.717, 0.608 seconds off Kral. After the 30-minute
practice session, Luiz Razia finished in 10th position with a better
understanding of the tyre degradation, which has been one of the talking points
in practice this morning.
Pirelli have provided a hard and
a soft compound this weekend in Barcelona and with saving tyres crucial for
qualifying this afternoon and both races on Sunday. The hard compound was the
choice for practice and with one set of hard tyres to be saved for the sprint
race on Sunday.
The soft compound looks favourite
for qualifying, but the drop off point is significant in getting the best
qualifying time.
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Notes to editors.
About: Luiz Razia.
Luiz Razia is a Brazilian racing
driver in the GP2 series, driving for Arden International. He has been a test driver
for Virgin Racing, now Marussia and is currently 2nd in the GP2 championship.
@LuizRazia
About: Arden International.
Arden International compete in
both the GP2 and GP3 championships. Christian Horner the current Red Bull
Racing team principal and his father Gary founded the team in the 1970’s. The
team has gone on to produce Formula 1 drivers Vitantonio Liuzzi and the current
Marussia Racing driver Charles Pic.
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